In this civilization's mythology, the screech-owl Muan was associated with the hell of these peoples, which contained 9 distinct levels and held a series of trials for its victims. Both Itzamna and Seven Macaw have been considered its supreme deities, but Seven Macaw had been reduced to the role of a boastful impostor by the post-classic period. These peoples' gods Hunahpu ("HOO-na-poo") and Xbalanque ("chee-ba-LAAN-kay") navigated [*] Xibalba ("chi-BAAL-ba") where they destroyed the chief lord One Death, earning the epithet "Hero Twins." That adventure is described in the Popul Vuh, which, fo
In this civilization's mythology, the screech-owl Muan was associated with the hell of these peoples, which contained 9 distinct levels and held a series of trials for its victims. Both Itzamna and Seven Macaw have been considered its supreme deities, but Seven Macaw had been reduced to the role of a boastful impostor by the post-classic period. These peoples' gods Hunahpu ("HOO-na-poo") and Xbalanque ("chee-ba-LAAN-kay") navigated [*] Xibalba ("chi-BAAL-ba") where they destroyed the chief lord One Death, earning the epithet "Hero Twins." That adventure is described in the Popul Vuh, which, for 10 points, describes the myths of what Mesoamerican indigenous people of the Yucatan?
In this civilization's mythology, the screech-owl Muan was associated with the hell of these peoples, which contained 9 distinct levels and held a series of trials for its victims.
{Mayan} Civilization